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Show WHEN PHRENOLOGIST FELL. (Detroit Free Press.) Mayor Reyburn of Philadelphia, the owner of the record-breaking trotter Ed Bryan, told at a dinner a horse story. "A farmer visited a phrenologist," he said. "He had heard that the phrenologist phrenolo-gist thought of buying a horse. He had his head examined and his bumps revealed re-vealed surprising things. " 'Your tastes are the simple, homely and pure tastes of a farmer.' said the phrenologist, 'and a farmer I take you to be. Am I not right? Aha, I thought so. You are unready and faltering in speech; you find it difficult to express the simplest ideas. You are sadb deficient defi-cient in judgment ami have no knowledge of human .nature. Your innocent and trusting disposition renders you an eas dupe to designing men, and your own p t-fect t-fect honesty prevents you from either suspecting sus-pecting or defrauding any one. "The phrenologist the following week bought a horse from the farmer. The horse was knock-kneed, it was JTo years old, it had a bad temper, and it balked Though the farmer had only paid U lor the animal, he secured without difficulty Slot) from the phrenologist for it. 'It's wonderful,' said the farmer to himself, as he hastened toward the nan to deposit the money-its jest wonderful that a man should know so much about men and not know a thing about hosses!' " ' |